Grace 02 to Help Us

Oswald Chambers

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God. Service becomes a natural part of my life. God brings me into the proper relationship with Himself so that I can understand His call, and then I serve Him on my own motivation of absolute love. Service to God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God. Service is an expression of my nature, and God's call is an expression of His nature. Therefore, when I receive His nature and hear His call, His divine voice resounds throughout His nature and mine and the two become one in service. The Son of God reveals Himself in me, and out of devotion to Him service becomes my everyday way of life.

A. W. Tozer

Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh.... Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.

James Hudson Taylor

The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine; and at the right time, and in the right way, is the right fruit found on it. Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.

Hope of Glory

Salvation and faith in Jesus Christ is a necessary first step towards regaining our rightful place in the family of God. We've been endowed with a life giving spirit and the right to fellowship with the Lord God. So it was in the beginning with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. They were blessed with a close relationship to God and given a stewardship in the creation on earth. This was a glorious time as the angels witnessed God's wonderful creation.

Adam and Eve were asked to keep one reverence to the Lord. And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat of any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die" (Genesis 2:16-17). Consequently, Adam and Eve were to leave the Garden of Eden in mere humanity as a result of their disobedience.

In the wisdom and grace of God, mankind is given a second opportunity to return to our original estate (the hope of glory). This plan, given in the fullness of time, is the redemption and salvation in Jesus Christ. He's taken upon himself the disobedience and sin of Adam and Eve and has brought new life to us by His sacrifice at Calvary (whereby justice and mercy was served on the cross). This is a true testimony of God's love in that he gave his only begotten son for everyone who'd believe the gospel.

The time from the death and resurrection of Jesus to the rapture of the church (the Bride) is known as the dispensation of grace. Mankind has been given the opportunity to see this truth and join in the salvation of God's grace. To help us in knowing the signs of the times, we've been given the Bible prophesies which declare the events leading up to the rapture or moment when God lifts his people from the earth into his presence.

The second coming of Jesus will mark a new dispensation: "This will happen when the Lord Jesus Christ is revealed from heaven in a blazing fire with his powerful angels. He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed" (2 Thessalonians 7:10 NIV).

Salvation is given freely to everyone who'd believe in Jesus Christ. The statement of faith by your prayer for salvation and confession of sin will open the way in the grace of God. This will give you a joy in the spirit known as the born-again experience.

And for today !!!

First, God's presence is always timely. In periods of crisis, when His people are in jeopardy needing special help or guidance, God assures them of His presence.

Second, God's presence is always consistent. His promise is that He will never leave or forsake His people. His presence never fails.

Third, God‘s presence is always comforting. It eliminates fear and anxiety in the crisis times and generates contentment in all the circumstances of life.

by Glenn Morrison (03)

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